Ophthalmology: a Photographic History 1845-1945 Disease & Pathology, Selections from the Burns Archive |
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| Author:
| Burns, Stanley |
| ISBN: | 978-1-936002-01-6 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2009 |
| Publisher: | Burns Archive Press, The
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
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Book Description:
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Part of a four-volume photographic history of ophthalmology. Volume Two, Disease & Pathology, presents unusual case studies and ophthalmic conditions. The book starts with the earliest surviving images, daguerreotypes, of patients with ocular disease. Dramatic photographs of patients su ering from a wide range of ophthalmic conditions include: retinal detachment, neoplasms, genetic disease, and infections from syphilis, tuberculosis, trachoma, and ophthalmia neonatorum. Trauma images...
More DescriptionPart of a four-volume photographic history of ophthalmology. Volume Two, Disease & Pathology, presents unusual case studies and ophthalmic conditions. The book starts with the earliest surviving images, daguerreotypes, of patients with ocular disease. Dramatic photographs of patients su ering from a wide range of ophthalmic conditions include: retinal detachment, neoplasms, genetic disease, and infections from syphilis, tuberculosis, trachoma, and ophthalmia neonatorum. Trauma images include the rst presentation of ocular gunshot wound with several previously unpublished views of wounded soldiers in the Civil War. Images from Victor Morax's private photograph album document the 'father of ophthalmic bacteriology.'